Poverty and Human Rights : A Multidimensional Concept in Search of Multidimensional Collaboration
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the complex issues that arise with respect to the interplay between poverty and human rights and to illuminate the importance of interdisciplinary analysis and multi-disciplinary engagement in confronting them. The first section focuses on definitional issues, outlining how human rights has come to be associated with definitions of poverty. Section two presents an analysis of various theoretical justifications for conceptualising poverty as an issue of human rights while section 3 outlines some of the critiques and challenges that are confronted in integrating human rights into action on poverty in practice. The chapter is written as an Introduction to a collection of essays on Poverty and Human Rights, jointly edited by the author with Anna Chadwick (University of Glasgow), forthcoming Elgar 2021